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Blade Runner Enhance Scene

Colton Casados-Medve
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Cited on HN 4 times, 2013–2025, never outright recommended score 0
Years with an HN recommendation, 2007–2026

Used as the canonical reference for the 'enhance' trope whenever image upscaling or recognition comes up.

The Blade Runner scene in which Deckard uses a voice-controlled machine to enhance a photograph, zooming into hidden details.

“the grand daddy of all enhance scenes” (HN, 2014)

2 citations · 2 jokes · Other

4 Hacker News comments

From the HN archive; up to 20 kept per video, favoring different commenters. Recommendations first.

@dmix Jan 2015 Cites it
on HN thread Identifiable Images of Bystanders Extracted from Corneal Reflections (2013)
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Yes in the 3 minute scene there were multiple indications from the picture to indicate: Chinatown (food/texts), the girls outfit (being a dancer), and an identifying tattoo. Which would point to only a few dance clubs in the city. It was also a connection to the artificial snake scale being found in the bath tub that happened to be rare and only created by a few possible engineers. Engineers who work on robotics. One Chinatown engineer happened to be employed by the people he was looking for, who were robots in need of an engineer... Not a far fetched connection by Hollywood's standards. [this video]
@pesenti Feb 2014 Makes a joke
on HN thread Depixelizing Pixel Art
I can't believe you are linking to CSI instead of Blade Runner, the grand daddy of all enhance scenes [this video] makes me feel old...

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